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Harmony Series

Working Lives Series

Appalachian Writing Series

Memoir Series

Laughing Buddha Series

 DVD and CD collection

Bird Dog Publishing Books

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*Many of our titles are now available as Kindle Books

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Just Released Titles

Sky Under the Roof: Poems by Hilda Downer

Words Walk: Poems by Ronald M. Ruble

Painting Bridges: A Novel by Patricia Averbach

Ariadne and Other Poems by Ingrid Swanberg

Word Walk: Poems by Ronald M. Ruble

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New Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Back in Print after 5 years.

Smith has revised this essential biography of one of America's

most forecful writers.  20 new photos, expanded and revised text.

322 pages in hard cover and signed.

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From our Memoir Series

The Curve of the World:

Into the Spiritual Heart of Yoga

A Memoir by Andy Douglas

Review in Elephant Journal

Fiction by Allen Frost

Bird Dog Publishing

From our Appalachian Series

Poetry of Person and Place

New Book of Poems by Marc Harshman

Poet Laureate of West Virginia

Green-Silver and Silent

Poems by Marc Harshman

Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems

by Liane Ellison Norman

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She Who Is Like a Mare:
Poems of Mary Brechenridge

and the Frontier Nursing Service

by Karen Kotrba

Homegoing: A Novel

by Michael Olin-Hitt

Healings. Snake handlers. Stills. Quotes from the Bible. Family feuds. Chicken coops. Speaking in tongues. Indian medicine bags. Laying outs. Intergenerational rivalry. Forty lashes of hot wax. Old-fashioned tent revivals. Michael Olin-Hitt, in The Homegoing, has, with skillful writing and a true knowledge of home, combined the aura of the mid-twentieth-century Appalachia of southern Ohio with the puzzle of a mysterious disappearance and the solving of a family mystery. Read and enjoy.
-- Jane Piirto, author of Saunas and A Location in the Upper Peninsula.

180 pages...$17.00

Early Review of The Homegoing

In New Southerner

Smoke: Poems

by Jeanne Bryner

The poems in Jeanne Bryners Smoke reveal her to be an angel of mercy not only in her work with patients but also in her ability to create poems that comfort and guide us as we face universal fears: sickness, personal and societal abuse, family tragedy, physical pain and emotional longing. Her poems dig deep, reaching what Emily Dickinson called the zero at the bone. - Cortney Davis, author of The Hearts Truth: Essays on the Art of Nurs

96 pgs. $15

  A Winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards

MAGGOT: A NOVEL

Robert Flangan's blockbuster novel of

basic training

in our Working Lives Series

Parris Island will make a man of you or break you totally, many have suggested. Flanagan tells the story of the varying shades of possibility in between. These are real people in the hands of this author.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

264 pgs. $17.00

 Selected Correspondence of    Kenneth Patchen

edited by Allen Frost

Letters to and from:

E.E. Cummings - James T. Farrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - James Laughlin- Henry Miller - Miriam Patchen - Kenneth Rexroth -Wallace Stevens - Dylan Thomas - Leon Trotsky - Amos Wilder - Thomas Wolfe - Jasper Wood, and many others others

336 pages with photos and illustrations...

$18 softcover/ $28 hardcover

Review in New York Journal of Books

See Early Write-Up in Outlaw Poetry Newsletter

Larry Smith's New Each Moment All

Limited first edition from March Street Press (Out of print)

Now the book is available from the Bottom Dog Press

Laughing Buddha Series



 Other Recent Books

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Broken Collar: A Novel

by Ron Mitchell

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234 pgs. $17

The Pattern Maker's Daughter: Poems

by Sandee Gertz Umbach

90 pages $15

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American Poet: A Novel Wins Michigan

2013 Notable Book Award

* Winner of the Saginaw Valley State Universitys

Stuart and Vernice Gross Award

for Excellence in Writing by a Michigan Author.

Read a Review in the New York Journal of Books

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The Free Farm: A Novel by Larry Smith

*Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2011

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From Our Memoir Series

The Way-Back Room:

A Memoir of a Childhood in Detroit

by Mary Minock

From Our Appalachian Writing Series

These two books are nominated for Book of the Year

by the Appalachian Writers Association

Richard Hague's Collection of Stories, 216 pages

22 Stories, Yarns, & Tales, rich in character, voice, and landscape.

Review in New York Journal of Books

"The fiction in this collection is as comforting as it is challenging, as familiar as it is surprising, and, in all of the aspects that matter to the serious reader of literature, it is thoroughly satisfying." --Chris Holbrook, author of Upheaval

Sinners of Sanction County

Stories by Charles Dodd White, 160 pgs.

Sinners of Sanction County is one of the best story collections to come out of the American South in recent times. Writing in a spare, poetic style that fairly crackles with energy, Charles Dodd White makes his mark as a major new talent as he masterfully explores the raw beauty and pathos of life among tough people caught in bad situations. With this book, he has nailed the coonskin to the wall.-- Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff

Read Review in New York Journal of Books

Fresh Review in Southern Literary Review

Newest Review in Smoky Mountain News

*Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2011

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* Designates Books Nominated for The Pushcart Prize

Two New Titles Out Now (click on covers to order)

Two Classics

See Daniel Thompson story in Cleveland Plain Dealer (link)

Photos from the Night Town Reading on Sept. 17th

Youtube of Ray McNiece doing "Train" poem at Night Town with Drumplay

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New From Bird Dog Publishing

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New books:

* Tu Fu Comes to America

from March Street Press

Available through us.

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Allen Frost's

* The Mermaid Translation

Church of the Backyard Fire

Poems by Vladimir Swirynsky

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Stories by these writers:

Great Lakes Novel Contest Winner 2009-2010

Strangers in America

by Erika Meyers

Erika Meyers Kafkaesque fable gives us a contemporary America of disappearing prosperity, endangered jobs, and fragmented families as witnessed specifically in the city grit of Cleveland, Ohio...Free of caricature, Strangers in America is peopled with individuals rich in human complexity....When you finish Strangers in America, the main character Helena Adamzik will still be there: tough, dead-pan funny,proud and enduring.

-Robert Flanagan, final judge

140 pgs. $16.00

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Riders on the Storm: A Novel

by Susan Streeter Carpenter

The1960's comes alive in this telling novel

of the years of rebellion and dreams.

"Ive always wondered why the sixties are so hard to write about.

But Susan Streeter Carpenter proves it can be done with

equal parts insight,generosity, and honesty.

Her evocation of the time is among the best I've seen."

-Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

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Interview with Author Link

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*Those Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

 

by Chris Green

*Daily Bread:

A Portrait of Homeless Men and Women

Profiles & Photos

Now Out...Click Below

Bottom Dog Press Poetry Anthology

More than 65 poets from our 91 books
Edited by Laura Smith and Allen Frost
Senior Editor Larry Smith

Family Matters: Poems of Our Families

Photo Gallery of the Press's Events

Our Book Launching of Bottom Dog Press Poetry Anthology

March 8th Village Books, Bellingham, WA

Photos from

Our Reading at the Appalachian Studies Conference

at North Georgia College & University

Photos from

Our Group Reading at Barking Spider in Cleveland, April 3rd

Video from this Reading-Performance

Press Blog

Red Room for Writers & Publishers Listing

Our Goals &  Values:

We believe in a sense of place and person, in writing that reveals through its directness an essential human story. We also support the history and development of Working Class Literature, and we work to provide outlets for that writing and information on that vital art.

We are supported in part by

grants from the Ohio Arts Council

Contacts

Bottom Dog Press/ PO Box 425/ Huron, Ohio 44839
Phone: 419-433-5560 Ext. 20784/ Fax. 419-616-3966 /
E-Mail : LsmithDog@smithdocs.net

Director: Larry Smith.... Associate Editors: David Shevin,  Susanna Schwacke, Allen Frost, Ann Smith, others.

Larry Smith Homepage

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